I am a wildlife artist, working in watercolor. I lived in the southern African countries of Botswana & Zimbabwe for nearly 9 years and as a result I paint the African wildlife I got to know so well. I return to Africa on a regular basis and recently spent 6 weeks at the Painted Dog Conservation project just outside Hwange National Park in north-western Zimbabwe. My trip was the 5th Artists For Conservation Flag Expedition and my aim was to spend time searching for and sketching highly endangered African Wild Dogs, known as Painted Dogs in Zimbabwe. This gave me an excellent title for my expedition - "Painting the Painted Dogs - Artistic Study of an Endangered Hunter". The trip was great. I got a completely different perspective by staying at a conservation project and also managed to spend a lot of time at the community projects which are so important to conservation.

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